Game Reviews
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Vigil: The Longest Night Review – Saltyvania
Vigil: The Longest Night looks like a Salt & Sanctuary clone, but it skews much more towards the vania side of the soulsvania equation than S&S did. It has an absolutely sprawling world full of sidequests, secrets, and optional encounters, and there are all kinds of items and equipment you can find to change up…
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A Story Beside Review – Putting the R&R in RPG
A Story Beside certainly isn’t the first game to put the player in the shoes of a character who would typically be an NPC, but it is one of the first I’ve played that truly commits to it. This is a game where the story of an early JRPG like Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy…
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Death’s Door Review: A New Spin on Zelda
Death’s Door is the latest game by Acid Nerve, makers of Titan Souls, a great OHKO boss rush game from 2015. If the name sounds familiar, it might be because our own Gibby named it as one of 10 cool games from E3 this year. Where Titan Souls was very much a Soulsborne-style game with…
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Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition Review and Retrospective
After years of clamoring for it and EA repeatedly denying that it’d ever be a thing, the Mass Effect remasters were finally here two months ago. It took me a month to finish the first game and then another month to get around to writing this. Just the kind of speedy service you can expect…
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Subnautica: Below Zero Review
Subnautica: Below Zero is the sequel to 2018’s Subnautica, an exploration game about surviving in a huge alien ocean with loads of biomes and open waters for over a kilometer in any direction. Each biome had its own unique wildlife, ranging from harmless little fish you could eat for sustenance to 100 meter nightmares that…
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon Review
When I first heard that Ryu Ga Gotoku was ditching the tried-and-true Yakuza combat in favor of a JRPG, I thought they were crazy. It was already their first outing with a new protagonist, and turn based JRPGs are about as far as you can possibly get from bombastic hand-to-hand combat. It’s a famously bonkers…
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Catherine: Full Body Review
Catherine: Full Body is the improved edition of Catherine much in the same way as Atlus makes an improved version of all their games after a few years. It just took longer. It brings the game to a bunch of new systems, adds a new character and associated route, and tosses in some new endings…
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For the King – Lost Civilization Review
For the King is probably best described as a roguelite tabletop RPG. You form a party of three custom characters from a pool of different class archetypes and then go out into the overworld to do fights and complete quests until you reach the big bad. There’s some time pressure because bosses called scourges spawn…
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Donut County Review: Special Delivery
Donut County is Katamari with a hole instead of a ball. That sounds reductive, but it’s also what this game is. You steer a hole around and things fall in it, which makes your hole bigger so you can make bigger things fall in, and so on. It shakes up the Katamari formula with some…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 15
F1 Racing Championship (Ubisoft, 2000) Apparently the PS2 version of this was notable for having GPS-modeled all the tracks and using a 360 degree camera to capture even small track details, but obviously none of that comes through on GBC. F-1 World Grand Prix (Video System, 1999) A much better racing game that has an…